Weight-motor.



.1. A. WILSON. WEIGHT MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28, 1908.

961,279. Patented June 14,1910.

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JAMES A. WILSON, OF MAHOMET, TEXAS.

WEIGHT-Moron.

Specication of Letters Patent. Patented June 14, 1910.

Application iled November 28, 1908. Serial No. 464,934.

I brake.

Another object is to provide a motor that will furnish power for operating electric dynamos and other machinery, such as grist mills, shellers, hullers, etc., and various other machines and apparatuses. I

Finally the object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described that will be strong, durable, simple and eiicient and also one in which the several parts grill not be liable to get out of working orer. With the above and other objects in view,

my invention has particular relation to 0er-,

v tain novel features of construction and operation, an example of which is described in ,the following specification and illus-` trated in wherein:

Figure l is a side elevation of the ni'otor,

2 is a plan view, the tower being omitte and Fig. 3 is a detail of the brake.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a tower suitablyconstructed and Q'f any desired height. At the top of the tower pulleys 4 are mounted. The pulleys being ositioned to permit cables or other flexi le the accompanying drawings,

connections 5, passing over the pulley, to

hang in the tower. To the depending end of each cable a weight 6 is attached. The

v other ends of the cables are attached to i The drums are loosely mounted on a shaft 2 drums 3 and 7 about which they are coiled.

rotating in bearings 8 resting on a horizon'- tal frame 9 attached to the lower portion of the tower. At one end each drum is Jprovided with a gear lOwhich meshes with a Winding pinion 11 mounted on a shaft 12 supported in a bearing 13 resting o n the 'frame' and having a crank handle 14 xed on its projecting end.

i By turning the handle l14:, the drum is re- Y volved, the cable coiled thereon and the weight 6 raised to the top of the tower. For holding each drum and its weight in position, a ratchet 15 is fixed on its opposite end and ada ted to be enga ed by a pawl 16 carried on t e inner side o a dlsk 17 xed on the drumshaft. At the center of the shaft 2 a gear'50 meshes with and transmits motion to a train of gears comprising a pinion 18 mounted on a counter shaft 19 mounted on theframe and transmitting motion by-a gear 20 to a pinion 21 mounted on va brake shaft 22 also supported on the frame. y l A The brake shaft has fixed thereon a gear 23 meshin with a pinion A24 fixed .on a power sha t 25 mounted on the frame'a'nd carrying a pulley 26 by which motion can be transmitted as desired.

On a shaft 51 a speed dgovernor including a brake disk is arrange The brake disk 28 'is movable on the shaft and from it spring weight arms 29 extend, having their ends attached to a collar 3() fixed on the shaft. If the shaft 25 should revolve at too high a rate of speed or the motor at- -tempt to race the centrifugal action will bow the arms and draw the sleeve over the shaft until the brake disk engages a brake shoe 3l. The governor is driven by a belt 27 extending from a pulley 32 fixed to the collar 30 and passing around a larger pulley fixed on the shaft 22.

For holding the motor against operation a colla-r; 34 is fixed on the shaft 22 and a brake shoe 35 supported from the frame, extended across the same. The free end of the shoereceives the lower end of a hand screw `36 supported in a bracket 37 restingon the frame.' It is evident that by turning the hand screw and forcing the shoe-35 into contact with the collar, a braking action is had and the motor stopped irrespective of the position ofthe weight.

It is understood that as a weight moves downward, the cable is unwound from its drum and the latterrevolved, thus imparting motion tothe train of gears and pinions and the pulley 26 by means of the gear 50 and the awl'and ratchet. However, onlyT one weig t movesiat aftme. The drum 7 is held against rotation` and its. weight at the top of the tower, untilv the drum 3.isf1l1-` .wound and its weight has descended-.2g This kis accompii'shed b'y .Ineenszlof a ratchet'38.`

fixed to the drum 7 and engaged by -a. pawl 39 pivotally supported from the frame. The pawl is enlarged or considerably heavier at its outer end so as to have a tendency to swing down and away from the ratchet. It is held in engagement with the ratchet by a lever 40 mounted to rock on the frame and having a lug 41 engaging under the outer edge of the pawl. This lever has its opposite end projecting over the drum 3 and provided with a cross piece 42 projecting in close proximity to the upward run of the cable.

Vhen the cable is practically unwound from the drum 3, a button 43 thereon engages the cross piece 42 and swings the lever 40 so that the lug 4l is 'swung up from under the pawl 39 and the latter permitted to swing away from the ratchet 38, thus permitting the drum 7 to unwind and its Weight to descend after the drum 3 has unwound and its weight descended.

'V 7hat I claim, is:

l. In a motor of the character described, a pair of successively operable Weight motors including drums provided with cables leading to the weights, and means for preventing rotation of one of the drums until the other has unwound comprising a ratchet on the first mentioned drum, a weighted'pivoted pawl 39 engaging therewith, a^supporting device 4l engaging the weighted end of said pawl 39 to normally hold the same in elevated position and in engagement with the ratchet, and means controlled by the un winding of the cable of the last mentioned drum to release the pawl 39 so that the same will disengage from its ratchet.

2. In a motor of the character described, a pair of successively operable weight motors including drums provided with cables leading to the weights, and means for preventing rotation of one of the drums until the other has unwound comprising a ratchet on the first mentioned drum, a pawl adapt-ed to engage therewith, and means for releasing the pawl including a movable part above the coil ot' the cable on the last mentioned drum arranged to be actuated by said cable, substantially as described.

3. In a motor of the character described, a pair of successively operable weight motors including drums provided with cables leading to the weights, and means for preventing rotation of one of the drums until the other has unwound comprising' a ratchet on the first mentioned drum, a pawl adapted to engage therewith, and means for releasing the pawl including a movable part arranged above the coil of the cable on the last men tioned drum, in combination with a device carried by the cable arranged to engage said movable part.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specilication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES A. wILsoN.

Witnesses JAS. SUDBURY,

J. G. SUDBURY, S1'. 

